• Rolando@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I was waiting for it all to come out before I watched it. Then the consensus was that it wasn’t worth watching.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I waited too, and it was worth it.

      The last… two seasons-ish drop off in terms of pacing ridiculously, which causes the overall plot to suffer as they rush to the finish. There’s also a bunch of stuff about how everything ends that feels cheap because while it’s a believable state for everything to end up in, it isn’t earned or worked towards. The show is usually a slow burn punctuated by the occasional “big shit happens suddenly”, while the final seasons are just speeding along with no time to examine character motivations etc. Stuff that was hinted at previously jumps from “are they hinting that?” straight to “oh, yeah, it’s that. And about 10x the level they hinted at”.

      That said, there’s still a TON of good content in the show up until the end.